Evening Star Newspaper, January 18, 1937, Page 26

‘B—10 Film Actor’s AMUSEMENTS. Tragic End Creates Baffling Problem Warners Uncertain as to Proper Handling of Picture Made on Suic Eve of Alexander’s ide. BY JAY CARMODY. HAT with inaguration week at hand, you probably are extremely busy, but any one with a few minutes to spare might meditate on what he would do in the Warner Bros.’ place at the moment. Out at their film factory in Hollywood the Warner Bros. have a long strip of celluloid which represents an investment of several hundred thousand dollars. It is a picture starring Ruby K and Able.” Frankly, the freres War-+ ner don't know what to do with it. ‘The reason for their puzzlement is the presence of the late Ross Alexan- der in the major male rie in the pic- ture. Alexander, your/ talented and destined for stardom, 1< ently took his own life. He was popular, and the manner of his death made the tragic story a several days’ sensation. And now Warner's have a film filled with the image and likeness and the voice of Ross Alexander, and they are not certain what the public reaction to it would be. The more confused are they because Alexander’s tragic end completely belies the vi- brant vitality which he injected into the part. His suicide, coming directly after completion of the picture, m\ effect wrote & new ending to it. The screen version, of course, would have | the original fadeout, but there prob- ably would be another in the minds of | a great many persons seeing it. The | movie public is that close to the lives of its favorites. Mrs. Warner's sons are well aware of that intimacy and are baffled by its possible psychologic effects. Sooner or later the picture prob- ably will be released. Alexander's performance, instead of being billed in co-star prominence (as it was to | have been for the first time in his| brief career) will be soft-pedaled. The | public will be given a chance to for- | get which it does with notorious facil- | ity. The company will save an addi- | tional cost of $100,000 in mfilmmgn | one of the signers . . . eeler, a musical called, “Ready, Willing INAUGURAL crowds will have plenty of places to go on Tuesday and Wednesday nights. Local theater managements have seen to that with arrangements for special midnight shows. Downtown, the Earle, Loew’s Capitol and Keith’s will swish right on through the witching hour just as unconcernedly as if it were a local practice to start shows at that time. The Palace and Columbia will not be- 2in special programs at midnight, but their schedules will be revised to carry through that hour. * x Kk % M -G-M, whose quest for descend- ants of those who signed the Constitution was mentioned in this department recently, can sit down and rest for a while if it wants to. Ber- nard Kohn, who read about it here, | says Donald Edward McHenry is one of the very persons M-G-M has been ! seeking. Mr. McHenry. naturalist at- tached to the National Park Service, is a descendant of James McHenry, Hollywood has absorbed Vincente Minnelli, as of course it would, after his success in bullding the brightest revue in a decade, “The Show Is On.” Mr. Min- nelli, under 30 still, has signed for 40 weeks with Paramount . . . Two more i of the comparative classics are being removed from competition with cur- rent and future stories submitted to Hollywood for approval. They are Alexander's part with another lead- | Mark Twain’s “The Prince and the ing man and the problem will be | Pauper” and Brete Harte's “Outcasts | solved. What the picture will do in |Of Poker Flat First National is the way of box office, time alone will tell. There is no reason, of course, why | it should not be released in its pres- ent form. Posthumous releases are not new. They were successful in the cases of Valentino and Will Rogers pictures. The situation as it relates to “Ready, Willing and Able,” however, is not precisely the same. ‘That it has arisen dramatically illus- trates the hazards encountered in the | ° most mammoth of entertainment en- terprises, movie making. * ok X X R-K-o may shout the loudest and highest bid for those lit'ry and | dramatic works drenched in social im- | plications, but Columbia seems sud- | denly to have made up its mind to | become the maker of the madcaps. In and “Theodora Goes Wild,” that it paid a record price for, “You Can't Take It With You,” comes as more pleasant than startling news. “Pleas- ant” because every one who writes | 1mnklng the former with Errol Flynn ;and the Mauch twin, Billy and | Bobby, in the cast. R-K-O is working on the Harte tale with Preston Fos- ter in the major role. Where and When Current Theater Attractions and Time of Showing. National—'The Mikado,” at 8:30 | p.m. Capitol—“One in a Million,” at 10 am, 12:25, 2:55, 5:20, 7:50 and 10:20 p.m. Stage shows at 11:40 a.m., 2:10, | 4:35, 7:05 and 9:30 p.m. Earle—“More Than a Secretary,” at | |11 am, 1:35 4:25,°7:15 and 10:10 view of its success with “Mr. Deeds” | P-m. Stage shows at 12:35, 3:25, 6: 15! and 9:15 p.m. Keith’s—“The Plough and the]| Stars,” at 11:52 a.m., 1:55, 3:58, 6:01, | 8:04 and 10:07 p.m. Palace—“After the Thin Man,” lt THE EVENING New Star Makes Her Film Debut ance. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, Sonja Henie, world’s champion figure skater, is pictured here between Don Ameche and Adolphe Menjou, two important members of the cast with her in her first motion picture appear- The film, “One m a lelxon * now is playing at Loew’s Capttol Theater. MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1937. “LAST OF MRS. CHENEY” DIRECTOR DIES SUDDENLY _|Richard Boleslawski Also Wielded Megaphone for “Garden of Allah.” BY the Associated Press. HOLLYWOOD, January 18.—Rich- ard Boleslawski, 49, a motion picture director, died yesterday at his home, apparently the victim of a heart at- tack. He was a native of Poland. Boleslawski was directing “The Last of Mrs. Cheney” at the time of his death. He came to Hollywood in 1929 to direct “Rasputin” after several years | of Broadway ftage producing. Among the films he directed were “The Em- press,” “Theodora Goes Wild” and “The Garden of Allah,” a Technicolor production. A native of Warsaw, Boleslawski was graduated from the University of Odessa, was identified for some time with the Moscow Art Theater and was a lieutenant of Polish Lancers during the war. AMUSEMENTS. Constitution Hall, Next Sun. Aft.. 4 P. M, Pianist—Last outstanding $1.10, $1.65, 32.20. Mrs. orsex’s 1300 G SPECIAL Capttal’s Drama Groups Corpos Vital in “It Can’t Happen Here.” “Death Takes a Holiday” Tonight. BY HARRY MacARTHUR. HE town is going to be Corpo-conscious before the week is over if the ‘Washington Civic Theater has anything to say about it. The Corpos, in case you can arouse any interest over it on Monday, are storm troops. Don’t jump, not real storm troops. They're the | what might happen if a Fascist dictator got control of the United States, | THREE DAYS ONLY : | JAN. 18th, 19th & 21st STAGE & BALLROOM 1 0 ONE-HOUR LESSONS student body will start rehearsals of |a short play with an all-male cast, | thereby getting even. Miss Brown will direct the male play also and it will be staged some time in March as | a studio production. * x ok x EMBERS of the Blackfriars Guild | are entering their fourth week | of rehearsal of “The Divorce Quex-{ | tion,” William Anthony McGuire's drama relating to the story of the ! CHILDREN & ADULTS storm troops of the corporative state projected in Sinclair Lewis' play, about | “It Can't Happen Here.” The Corpos are a pretty tough lot generally. Some of them are swag- gering braggarts suddenly armed with destructive authority. Too, there are poor, bewildered lads who didn’t know what they were letting themselves in for when they joined the Corpos. | But bewildered or swaggering, they carry on. One of the principal things they do is hold demonstrations, with book burnings. One time they start | the blaze with Dickens’ works, becaise “Dickens was & Communist—didn't he | complain of conditions.” When not engaged in burning books, according to reports, they sing marching songs. The Corpos are to | be clad in brand-new uniforms, de- | signed by Mary Woodard Davis. New, | | because the Civic Theater didn't want to have its storm troops matching the | likes to see spirited bidding for the | 10:15 a.m., 12:25, 2:40, 4:55, 7:10 and | already famous Black Shirts and product of any one's typewriter; and | | pleasant, too, because Columbla does | have a flair for comedy. As a stage play, “You Can't Take It With You” sent even the conserva- tive New York Times chasing after a stronger word than hilarious. This work of George Kaufman and Moss | Hart concerns the pleasant antics of | one of the maddest families ever to effervesce into dramatic form. the kind of family, if you have not heard about it, which draws such waifs and strays as its ice man to its bosom, keeps him there and never even | troubles to find out his name. It is that sort of thing and its screen pos- ! sibilities seem enormous, con.sena-l tively apeaking. 9:40 pm. Metropolitan—"One Way Passage,” at 11 am, 12:45, 2:35, 4:25, 610 8 and 9:50 p.m. Columbia—"Camille,” at 11:55 a.m., | 2:20, 4:45, 7:10 and 9:40 p.m. Rialto—"Horsefeathers,” at 2, 4:36, 7:17 and 9:58 p.m. Little—"“Arrowsmith,” at 11 am, Ambassador—"More Than a Secre- | tary,” at 6:15, 8 and 9:50 p.m. Tivoli—"Born to Dance,” at 2, 3:50, | | 5:50, 7:35 and 9:30 p.m. Howard—"Pigskin Parade,” at 12:30, 3:55, 7:05 and 10:10 p.m. Stage shows at 2:30, 5:45 and 9:10 p.m. ! Brown Shirts in manner of costume. | There will be other songs, too, dur- ing the production of “It Can't Hap- | pen Here,” sung during scene changes | by a male chorus, under the direction | | of Adolph Torovsky. There will be | “Dixie” (flag wavers!), “Battle Hymn | of the Republic,” “Onward Christian | Soldiers,” “America, the Beautiful,” | “John Brown's Body” and "Ouz It s, 1:11, 3:22, 5:33, 7:44 and 9:50 p.m. | There.” includes Joe | Charles | Stephen Harry | | The singing group Bourne, Mannix Walker, | Pennebaker, Victor Sutro, Gray, Richard Kreusburg, ‘Westcott and George Edwards. *It Can't Happen Here,” inci- | dentally is being directed by Day Tut- tle, and opens its week's engagement Another Example of HUGH REILLY Workmanship SHERIDAN THEATER BUILDING GROUP ITH GREAT pride, Hugh Reilly points to another example of fine workmanship in glass decoration—the Sheridan Theater Building Group—ore of several similar groups of theaters and stores including the Penn and Uptown Theaters. UGH REILLY Glass and Art Decorative Services have been known to Washington for nearly 50 vyears. 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The play, which has had its suc- cesses on Broadway and in Hollywood, | is being staged by who was responsible for the direction of the Pierce Hall group’s successful production of “The Scarecrow.” Frank Gaunt and Charlotte Tilley | are in the leading roles and the cast | | includes Gretchen Greer, Otto Ruhl- | | ing, William Austin Davis, Felice | | Loyd. Esma Maybe, Carol Hogan, Mil- | ton F. Brewster, ‘ry A. Hewitt and Carl Pribek. “Death Takes a Holiday” will be | presented, of course, at Pierce Hall, and the curtain is scheduled for 8:30 o’clock. * x ¥ ¥ EMBERS of the male half of the student body at the Studio of | Theater Arts are not going to sit | around on their make-up boxes while the girls have all the fun. Anumber of the girls enrolled will | { have parts in the Washington Civic \Theaters sixth play of the season, | “Girls in Uniform,” which goes into ‘rehearsul at the studio with a cast | of 30 women, under the direction of | Constance Connor Brown, while Day "mttle still is engrossed with Corpos, Idlcutors and the other embellish- | | ments of “It Can't Happen Here.” At the same time the men of the Ina L. Hawes, | Herbert Smith, Har- | washed in protective n 4. WE GUAH“TEE continuous laboratory tests to pre- serve maximum tensile strength of fabrics. 5. WE GIIIRAIITEE health protection through pasteuri- zation and sanitation. .. WE EUAMHTEE retention of original color bril- liance of fast-color fabrics. 1. WE GUARANTEE our traditionally prompt, gourteous and efficient service. 8. WE GUARANTEE smart, stylish, expert finishing through controlled temperature ironing. 9. WE GUARANTEE entire satisfac- tion or money back. downfall of a boy and girl neglected by divorced parents. Angela Keir is directing and the | cast includes Stephen Trodden, Con- | stance Haug, Jeanne Bateman, Julian z:er, Edgar Ford, John Victory, Edna | Evans and Leo Brady. * % ¥ X THE Junior Players’ Guild will pre- | | sent “Ice on Parle Francais” Fri- | day night at Pierce Hall. Ici on will ,pme Anglais, though, in spite of | the French title. Mitchell Disney, Luis de Bayle, | Georgiana Calner, Ralph A. Randell, Tom Judd, Jean Forbes and Betty Parkhill will be in the cast and David Proffit will direct. ‘The speaking of French or English, or whichever one speaks, will be done for the benefit of West Virginia coal | miners. * x ¥ % THE Blackfriars Guild will have its third social next Sunday night at | | the music building of Catholic Uni- versity at 8:30 o'clock. Mary Con- stance Rowe will talk on “A Theory of Art and Life.” There will be a mu- sical program, and the guild will pre- | sent a one-act play. * % ¥ ¥ ELIZABE'!'H GATLIN PRITCHARD | is directing the cast rehearsing at the Arts Club for Hugo Inden's frivolous pantomime, “French Pas- try,” to be presented at the Bal Boheme February 1. Ruth Perrott ana Helen Ault will play the leads and Janet Coon, Lilla la Garde, Adele Martelle, Betty Sypher, | Amy Veerhoff and Sallie Jones will | be others prominent in the entertain- | ment. Lisa Gardiner and Michael | | Nicholoff will be the featured cers. | $5.00 Tap. Ballet, Stretching, Limbering, lkfimom. etc. Classes Beginners and Advanced. LIMITED CLASSES CHARLES DEMMA $TUDIOS MET, 1310 Mass. Ave. N.W. 0454 DANCING. FROF. AND MRS. L. ACHER. ball room Thonn Clrel!. The Edward F. Mil Mlller Studlo ll‘ lAlh ST. NATIONAL 8093 Is Danced. 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